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Suffragan
c. 14, which enacts that every archbishop and bishop disposed to have a suffragan should name to the king 'two honest and discreet spiritual persons, being learned and of good conversation,' and that each of them should
Statute staple
statute-merchant (q.v.), be proceeded on as a common obligation; and, wanting the sanction of the seal of the king, the sheriff, after the extent, could not deliver the lands to the consuee, but had to seize them
Scutage
contribution raised by those that held lands by knight's service in commutation of such service towards furnishing the king's army, at the rate of one, two, or three marks for every knight's fee (obsolete long before 12
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Mandamus
high prerogative writ of a most extensive remedial nature. In form it is a command issuing in the King's name from the King's Bench Division of the High Court only, and addressed to any person, corporation, or
Kings-at-Arms
Kings-at-Arms. The principal herald of England was of old designated king of the heralds, a title which seems to
Emperor
Emperor [fr. empereur, Fr.; imperator, Lat.], a sovereign prince who bears rule over large kingdoms and territories; a monarch of title and dignity supposed to be superior to a king. 'The Emperor' was
Divisions of the High Court
came into force on the 26th February, 1881, united in one 'Queen's Bench Division' (since the accession of King Edward the Seventh styled the' King's bench Division') the judges attached to the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions;
Defender of the Faith
the Faith [ fidei defensor, Lat.], a title of the Sovereign of England, as Catholic is of the King of Spain, and Most Christian was of the King of France. It is still stamped (F.D. or Fid.
Criminal information
Criminal information, a proceeding in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice at the suit of the king,without a previous indictment or
Queen's Bench
of this court now lies with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; when a king begins to reign, the name automatically changes to King's Bench. Also termed court of Queen's Bench, Black's Law
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